{"id":10946,"date":"2014-02-28T00:54:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T23:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10946"},"modified":"2014-02-28T00:54:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T23:54:59","slug":"south-abingdon-traffic-calming-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10946","title":{"rendered":"South Abingdon Traffic Calming Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three roads that connect the Drayton Road with Wilsham Road in South Abingdon all have traffic calming measures. Caldecott Road has speed bumps. Saxton Road has a 20 MPH Home zone with narrowing and chicanes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VJAZR7ayNNI\/Uw_DQonJgcI\/AAAAAAAAQ4w\/S_de5g_hYqo\/s1600\/14022702.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VJAZR7ayNNI\/Uw_DQonJgcI\/AAAAAAAAQ4w\/S_de5g_hYqo\/s1600\/14022702.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPreston Road has the notorious chicanes at the top end where drivers leave a trail as their wheels cut up the road. Some cars even bump into the chicanes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Qjr1GozDo9g\/Uw_FMTWCdHI\/AAAAAAAAQ48\/6NB0ssmcLJs\/s1600\/14022703.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Qjr1GozDo9g\/Uw_FMTWCdHI\/AAAAAAAAQ48\/6NB0ssmcLJs\/s1600\/14022703.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThen there is a long stretch down Preston Road where junctions are mixed with parked cars &#8211; where vehicles can go fast.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-M_fMhyIUOWo\/Uw_Fp5DDSmI\/AAAAAAAAQ5E\/jsMZPO1DiTw\/s1600\/14022704.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-M_fMhyIUOWo\/Uw_Fp5DDSmI\/AAAAAAAAQ5E\/jsMZPO1DiTw\/s1600\/14022704.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo what would work best?<br \/>\na) Better enforcement of speed limit<br \/>\nb) More traffic calming, speed bumps, chicanes etc..<br \/>\nc) Reduction of speed limit to 20mph<br \/>\nd) Safer Road crossing<br \/>\ne) More Off road parking<br \/>\nf) Other.<\/p>\n<p>And where is that most needed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three roads that connect the Drayton Road with Wilsham Road in South Abingdon all have traffic calming measures. Caldecott Road has speed bumps. Saxton Road has a 20 MPH Home zone with narrowing and chicanes. Preston Road has the notorious chicanes at the top end where drivers leave a trail as their wheels cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}